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Becoming Alabama Becoming Alabama During the next five years, Alabama will be celebrating many special anniversaries that helped create and shape our state. Becoming Alabama is a state-wide celebration of these events. Check out the dates below, watch for special events through-out the state, and have fun completing the activities in this book! Key: CW= event was part of the Civil War (includes events leading up to and immediately after) CREEK= event was part of the Creek War of 1813-14 CRM= event was part of the Civil Rights Movement Events in italics happened through-out the United States 2010 February 1960 - Lunch counter sit-ins in North Carolina spread to Alabama (CRM) March 1960 - Alabama State University students protest at state Capitol. (CRM) November, 1860 - election of Abraham Lincoln (CW) December 1860 - Alabama elects delegates to Secession Convention (CW) 2011 Jan. 11, 1861 - Alabama Secession Convention passes Ordinance of Secession and becomes the 4th state to secede from the Union (CW) Feb. 1861 – Confederate States of America (CSA) organized in Montgomery, Jefferson Davis inaugurated as president of the CSA (CW) March 1861 - Confederate flag and permanent Confederate Constitution adopted (CW) April 12, 1861 - firing on Ft. Sumter (CW) May 14, 1961 - Freedom Riders attacked in Anniston and Birmingham and bus burned in Anniston (CRM) May 20, 1961 - Freedom Riders attacked and beaten in Montgomery (CRM) May 21, 1861 - Confederate Congress meets in Montgomery for last time before the capital is moved to Richmond (CW) September 30, 1811 - Tecumseh speaks at the Council Oak at Tukabatchee urging Creeks to join other Native Americans to fight white expansion (CREEK) 2012 Feb. 11, 1862 - Huntsville occupied by Federal troops (CW) May 2, 1862 – Federal troops attack Athens(CW) April 1862 - Confederate conscription act (CW) June 1812 - U.S. declares war on Great Britain (CREEK) Summer 1862 – Confederate arsenal moved to Selma (CW) August 1862 - CSS Alabama commissioned (CW) 2013 Jan. 1, 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation issued (CW) April 11, 1813 - U.S. troops seize Mobile from the Spanish (CREEK) April 12, 1963 Martin Luther King, Ralph David Abernathy, and others arrested in Birmingham (CRM) May 1813 - Creeks make first of three visits to Spanish-held Pensacola to obtain supplies (CREEK) May - June, 1863 - Streight's Raid to destroy railroad lines in Alabama(CW) May 2-3, 1963 - Birmingham Children's Campaign marches (CRM) May 19, 1963 - Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail issued to the public as a press release (CRM) June 11, 1963 – George Wallace’s “Stand in the School House Door” to prevent integration of the University of Alabama (CRM) July 1863 - Battle at Gettysburg (CW) July 27, 1813 - skirmish at Burnt Corn Creek (CREEK) July 27, 1863 - William Lowndes Yancey dies (CW) August 30, 1813 – Creeks attack Fort Mims (CREEK) Sept. 1, 1813 – Creeks attack Kimball-James families in Clarke County (CREEK) Sept. 2, 1813 – Creeks attack Ft. Sinquefield (CREEK) Sept. 2, 1963 – Governor Wallace postpones opening of Tuskegee High to prevent integration (CRM) Sept. 9, 1963 - Huntsville schools successfully integrated (CRM) September 15, 1963 – Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church bombed, killing 4 children (CRM) October 1813 - Gen. Andrew Jackson and Tennessee volunteers depart from Fayetteville, TN for the Mississippi Territory to fight hostile Creeks (CREEK) November 12, 1813 - Canoe Fight (CREEK) November 3, 1813 - Battle of Tallushatchee (CREEK) November 9, 1813 - Battle of Talladega(CREEK) November 18, 1813 - Hillabee Massacre (CREEK) November 29, 1813 - Battle of Autossee (CREEK) December 23, 1813 - Battle of Holy Ground (CREEK) 2014 Jan. 12, 1814 - Battle of Emuckfau Creek (CREEK) Jan. 24, 1814 - Battle of Entichopco (CREEK) Jan. 27, 1814 - Battle of Calabee Creek (CREEK) Feb. 17, 1864 –H.L. Hunley, Confederate submarine built in Mobile, sinks (CW) March 27, 1814 - Battle of Horseshoe Bend (CREEK) April 1814 - Andrew Jackson establishes Ft. Jackson at the site of the French Fort Toulouse (CREEK) June 11, 1864 - CSS Alabama sunk by Kearsage (CW) July 1864 - Rousseau’s Raid (CW) August 1814 – Andrew Jackson moves headquarters to Mobile to prepare for British attack (CREEK) August 5, 1864 - Battle of Mobile Bay(CW) August 9, 1814 - Treaty of Ft. Jackson officially ends the Creek War (CREEK) Sept. 15, 1814 - British attack on Mobile Bay’s Ft. Bowyer repulsed (CREEK) Sept. 15, 1964 – 1st African-American elected officials since Reconstruction elected to Tuskegee City Council (CRM) December 24, 1814 - Treaty of Ghent signed, ending the War of 1812 (CREEK) 2015 Jan. 8, 1815 – Americans defeat the British at the Battle of New Orleans (CREEK) Feb. 11, 1815 - British capture Ft. Bowyer, unaware that the Treaty of Ghent had been signed. (CREEK) Feb. 26, 1965 - Jimmie Lee Jackson killed in Marion (CRM) March 1865 – Union generals John Croxton and James Wilson initiate “raids” into Alabama to destroy coal and iron industries (CW) March 3, 1865 - U.S. Congress establishes the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (CW) March 7, 1965 – Marchers beaten in Selma on Bloody Sunday (CRM) March 21-25, 1965 - Selma to Montgomery March (CRM) April - May 1865 - news of emancipation reaches most Alabama slaves (CW) April 9, 1865 - surrender at Appomattox Court House (CW) May 4, 1865 - Confederates surrender at Citronelle (CW) May 25, 1865 - powder explosion at Mobile kills hundreds (CW) May 30, 1965 - Vivian Malone becomes first African-American graduate of the University of Alabama (CRM) July 1865 - Wager T. Swayne arrives in Alabama as assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau in Alabama (CW) August 6, 1865 - President Lyndon Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (CRM) August 20, 1965 - Jonathan Daniels killed in Hayneville (CRM) st September 7, 1865 - 1 circular issued by Freedman’s Bureau Montgomery headquarters (CW) .
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